Mr. Charles Buxton addressed the people of Cromer on Tuesday
evening on the events of the past year. He had not much new to say, particularly to Cromer, but he made one statement worth notice. "I have not noticed," he said, "one feature in the history of the year—a feature the more striking because, unhappily, so rare—namely, that during the last twelve months the British Empire has been absolutely at peace in all parts of the world,. It is true that the war in New Zealand lingered on to the tegianing of the year, but it vanished away, strange to relate, as soon as-we withdrew from the contest, and left it to the colonists to fight their own battles." But surely, if our memory is not utterly, at fault, we were at war in Bootan. The matter is of little import- ance, except as bearing on a question of some historic interest. Has there ever been a day since 1860 on which Britain was not somewhere or other avowedly at war ?
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